Re: Left-handed version of DMZ cursor theme.

Hello colleagues,
I asked Jacub, he answered that he didn't touch DMZ theme for ages and does
not remember where it was hosted. So at a first glance I wanted to just
create repo on Github and start there from scratch taking SVGs from current
Debian packaging.

The major issue is absence of animated spinner anywhere in SVGs, I guess it
must be the mentioned tango-spinner.blender.

So right now I seem to be stuck with this, as I don't have required
artistic skills.


On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 19:31, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 7:21 PM Марьин Денис wrote:
>
> > So, if I got it right, the very first step might be to fork
> https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/dmz-cursor-theme right?
>
> No, that would just fork the Debian packaging, you need a new upstream
> location for the DMZ cursor theme. The old location was on gitorious
> in the openSUSE art repository. Looking at Repology and also at a web
> search, there are a few potential upstreams (listed below), but none
> of them seem very official or active and none seem to have done it
> properly by forking the old openSUSE art repository. So all of them
> are missing the Blender source file tango-spinner.blend, not sure if
> any of the cursor images used that though. I think it is important to
> keep the history of the theme by forking the old openSUSE art
> repository. I note that the original author of the DMZ cursor theme is
> Jakub Steiner <[email protected]> so it would probably also be a good
> idea to seek his advice on what to do about the maintenance of the DMZ
> cursor theme.
>
> https://gitorious.org/opensuse/art
> https://repology.org/project/dmz-cursor-theme/packages
> https://github.com/GalliumOS/dmz-cursor-theme/
> https://github.com/ganwell/dmz-cursors
> https://github.com/madsrh/yet-another-DMZ-cursor-theme/
>
> > Then left-handed cursors might be added there, and then something should
> happen for Debian maintainers to pick up this repo.
>
> I'm looking at the DMZ cursor theme package in Debian and I see that
> there are actually already some left and right handed cursor images,
> but not for all of the images. The same goes for the default GNOME
> cursor theme Adwaita. Unfortunately I don't know how to make GNOME use
> a left handed cursor, making the mouse left-handed instead of right
> handed changes the click side but not the cursor image.
>
> Any new cursor images should be added in the new upstream location, so
> that all distros who package the DMZ cursor theme can get the new
> cursor images.
>
> In addition, all the PNG images should get deleted from the repository
> and instead they should be created automatically at build time using
> the rendering script, so that everyone gets the source SVGs and knows
> that they can modify them and re-render the cursor images.
>
> > I am going to try forking and adding, but unfortunately I have no idea
> how to signal Debian guys to pick up my repo.
>
> Once there is a new upstream location for development of the DMZ
> cursor theme, then you can file a bug against the Debian
> dmz-cursor-theme package asking for it to use the new upstream. Then
> also do the same thing for the other packages listed on Repology so
> everyone gets the new theme.
>
> PS: I note that GNOME no longer uses the DMZ cursor theme so I expect
> the Debian GNOME team would orphan the package and leave updating it
> to someone who uses it.
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>